Packers draft history: Who is your worst, best pick?

Apr. 23, 2013

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Green Bay Packers defensive end Jamal Reynolds (99) is taken down by tight end Bill Seymour during a training camp practice in July 2002. The Packers took Reynolds in the first round of the 2001 draft. He played only 18 games for the Packers and had just 18 tackles, two forced fumbles and three sacks. File/Press-Gazette Media

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Bruce Clark, the infamous Penn State defensive end who spurned Green Bay in 1980 and instead signed with the Canadian Football League, wasn’t the first or the only first-round draft pick to reject the Packers and jump to a rival league.

In fact, Green Bay lost an overall No. 1 pick to the CFL in 1959, when Iowa quarterback Randy Duncan joined the British Columbia Lions instead of a Packers team that was coming off a 1-10-1 record.

Add 1965 first-round pick Larry Elkins (signed with the American Football League’s Houston Oilers) and 1947 first-rounder Ernie Case (signed with the All-American Football Conference’s Baltimore Colts) to the list and there are quite a few contenders for the biggest draft busts in Packers history.

But maybe you see draft busts as those who played, albeit barely or ineffectively, for the Packers and didn’t warrant their high-round status. There are plenty to choose from there: Justin Harrell, Jamal Reynolds, Tony Mandarich, Rich Campbell, Barry Smith, Jerry Tagge … and those are just the first-round picks.

On the flip side, the Packers have had quite a few draft steals. A few that come to mind: Donald Driver (213th overall), Larry McCarren (308th), Bill Curry (279th) and, of course, Bart Starr (200th).

We’d like to know what you think. Tell us which players were the Packers best and worst draft picks of all-time.

We'll take your suggestions over the next three days, then compile the winner and the loser and add them to a draft-day story about the Packers draft history.

For a list of recommended players to choose from and to submit your choice, click here.